Surgical Oncology

For many of our patients, surgery is an important part of the cancer treatment plan. At the Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center, each patient’s care team includes exceptional surgeons who have extensive experience in using the latest surgical techniques to treat cancer. These include minimally-invasive and laparoscopic techniques, which help reduce post-operative scarring and pain, and innovative procedures designed to save as much healthy tissue as possible, including sphincter-sparing surgery for many types of colon cancer.